| Lance, Thank you for your kind words.
You have to know, also, that the real hero here is Felton Hudson
who had the courage to welcome us white folk with open arms to Greene Co.,
where he has lived his entire 74 years.
I view him as a man who has always
stood-up to the white power structure in the County and has spoken to them
with clarity whether his response was "Yes", "No", or "Maybe".
When I first met Felton and told him our Oconee Team would like to come help him with
voter registration, somehow he was able to trust
that we would not screw-up what he has been building there
all his life, so he said, "Yes." That was our Team's lucky day
because we were able to join hands with a voter registration effort,
and now a GOTV effort, that Felton has been working in Greene County for decades.
One of the highlights has been doing canvassing door-to-door
in biracial teams, which
I found to be infinitely more effective than when
2 white people are knocking,
whether the person on the other side of the door is black or white.
What better way to cross the racial divide than to march across with biracial arms linked? Natasha, Thank you for connecting me with Felton and Stacey!
Carl ***** Carl McGrath 1031 Simonton Drive Watkinsville, GA 30677-2579 (706) 769-3400 --- On Sat, 10/25/08, Lance.Orchid <lorchid@georgiaforchange.com> wrote: From: Lance.Orchid <lorchid@georgiaforchange.com>
Subject: RE: Greene County
To: "Natasha Patel" <npatel@georgiaforchange.com>, "Natasha Patel" <npatel@georgiaforchange.com>, "carlmcgrath@yahoo.com" <carlmcgrath@yahoo.com>
Date: Saturday, October 25, 2008, 12:05 PM
This is so cool!!!
Kayla, one of Natasha's teams adopted Greene County (next to Hancock County)...pretty sweet thing.
Carl, Thank you guys so much for doing this.
It is truly inspirational. Thank you.
Lance Orchid Deputy State Field Director
Obama-Biden Campaign For Change, Georgia 706.372.7924
From: Natasha Patel Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 11:52 AM To: Lance.Orchid Subject: Greene County This is amazing. My adopted county. .
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